Comments on: Gio Gonzalez pitches brilliantly and David Wright drives in five as USA defeats Puerto Ricohttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/12/gio-gonzalez-pitches-brilliantly-and-david-wright-drives-in-five-as-usa-defeats-puerto-rico/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 21:25:25 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: blacksableshttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/12/gio-gonzalez-pitches-brilliantly-and-david-wright-drives-in-five-as-usa-defeats-puerto-rico/comment-page-1/#comment-455575
Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:34:01 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455575No its not.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:23:20 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455522Surprised Gonzalez didnt pitch for some latin team like all the others have. With their loose rules seems though all you need is some family member born in another country in the last 100 years and you can play for them. Gio could have easily played for team Cuba but kept it real and repped the USA.

Hope USA and PR both get to the final 4 in San Fran and one of them knocks off Japan already. Dont care for the final 4 format, it should be double elimination also not one and done.

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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:24:31 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455419Its so enjoyable watching Wright surrounded by a good team.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:59:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455403Guam, Palau, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands also have their own baseball federations and have competed in international tournaments.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:56:04 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455400Gotta admit…I’m pretty excited for the USA vs DR game. The US is pretty on fire right now, and the DR team looks like they’re having so much fun. It’s hard not to get caught up in that. Heck, I was cheering on Puerto Rico the other night when they played each other, and by the end of the game all that ‘shooting the stars’ stuff they did as they were cheering each other on had me pulling for them to win. Dare I say it? I like the WBC. It’s sort of like the ASG, but it actually means something to the players.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:33:40 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455378Well, they’re part of the US, but they get their own international sports teams.

Kind of like how the UK is “GBR” at the Olympics, but then England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland get their own international soccer teams for the World Cup. Some things you just get to decide how you want to be represented, and Puerto Rico and USA decided to stay separated for sports.

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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:13:16 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455334Typo – ‘exclusive’
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:12:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455332Despite this being really good baseball to watch so early on – great games, great drama aren’t we supposed to say how offended we are by the WBC? Or is that just the esclusive job of baseball writers?

Quoting ‘unnamed’ (made up) sources and loathing of the WBC. Isn’t that a baseball writer’s job?

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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:10:16 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455329Maybe a stupid question, but I don’t know my politics or geography that well. Isn’t Puerto Rico a territory of the US? As such, are they still their own country or part of the US?
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:42:43 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455317Fuck, yeah!!
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:22:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455313Congratulations to the USA team.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:15:19 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455311Way to go, team USA! Glad one of the members of our bullpen mafia is contributing. Great job, Vinnie!
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:51:52 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455308That’s not me even a little…that’s Miami or at least the Miami I saw for the night that I drove around looking for something to do that didn’t include a club when I went to Fort Lauderdale one weekend. Loved the beach in Fort Lauderdale but the entire Miami scene was just completely phony to me.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:46:13 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455305Hey, hey, hey, we don’t need to know all that about you.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:44:34 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455304What, you’re not enjoying the Captain America meme?
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:42:10 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455303And it would have been that way whether the owner had kept the $100 million payroll or not. It’s just not a baseball town. If they charged a $50 cover and had people line-up outside with a bouncer and played club music and dubbstep all night, with scantily-clad women dancing in cages and serving cocktails out behind the center field wall, they would probably do much better.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:39:22 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455301I watched some of this game as there wasn’t much else on last night. Can Joe Torre have any less personality? I mean Larry Bowa is excited, talking, cheering, and he says to Torre “That Wright is some player, huh?” and Torre just grunts. He looks like an old curmudgeon sitting there.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:00:10 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=302870#comment-455278team USA has the WRIGHT stuff! Go David but remember, when you come back to our Mets, to keep it up!

Team USA is acting like a team and encouraging each other with every offensive and defensive contribution these players make. That is a winning combination! This has been an exciting WBC all the way around.